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05-09-2007, 02:41 PM #1Newbie
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Helpdesk software - Perldesk v Kayako v SupportTrio
I'm looking for a good helpdesk solution for our company that can be used by our sales and support team. The main features I am looking for is email management. For example, currently our sales emails go to 3 people in the company, and they always have to coordinate with each other to make sure who responds to what. It would be great to have one central location where all customer emails get stored, and hence a helpdesk solution is what I'm hunting for!
As for features, to be honest, initially I imagine it being used solely for the client side, and the users won't see the actual helpdesk interface (ie, they'd send their requests to an email address and just reply to that email. they wouldn't see the web interface). In the future, we may end up using the Knowledge Base features of the helpdesk clients, which means we'll have to open up that part, but that isn't a 100% requirement, so I'm open to suggestions!
One important thing:
the ability to to customize the auto responses (or disable them) based on which department the email is sent to would be great.
I've looked at perldesk, kayako and support trio. I've heard a lot about Kayako here, and it looks great, but one thing that really urks me is how difficult it is to edit the text in emails that go out (the manage phrases interface is far from intuitive). Perldesk looks great from the online demo, but unfortunately it doesn't have a free trial I can fiddle around with. SupportTrio is looking good right now, but I don't know much about it.
Does anyone have any other suggestions, or care to share some experiences with the above?
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05-09-2007, 04:39 PM #2Web Hosting Guru
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I suggest you use Kayako, it is a great script. But you do have to kind of figure out who is going to answer what unless you have it automatically assign it to someone. It is very easy to edit the email templates with Kayako.
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05-09-2007, 11:55 PM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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Probably you may try looking for SmarterTickets
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05-10-2007, 09:47 AM #4Junior Guru Wannabe
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Editing email templates is not that difficult. Basic PHP knowledge will help you work around much faster. Your email limited requirements (autoresponder per department) can be fulfilled in Kayako.
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05-10-2007, 06:10 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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Kayako hands down! Very impressive script, and makes support so much more organized.